Harness-loop



(No Model.)

B. BARNARD.

HARNESS LOOP. I No. 368,271. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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ATENI OFFICE,

EDlVARD BARN ARD, ROME, NE\V YORK.

HARNESS-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,271, dated August16, 1887.

Serial No. 232,409. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD BARNARD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rome, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Harness-Loops, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in harness-loops of that classshown in a prior patent, No. 341,717, issued to me on the 11th day ofMay, 1886; and it consists of the peculiar and novel construction of thesame, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointedout in the claim.

The object of my present invention is to provide an improved loop or Dof simple and cheap construction, which will permit of the attachment ofa breeching and a number of other straps thereto without permitting themto come in contact and chafe or wear the breeching-strap.

In the accompanying drawings,whicl1 illustrate a part of a harnesshaving my improved loop, Figure l is a view showing the breeching, thebreechingstrap, a side strap, and a lazy-strap connected to my improvedloop. Fig. 2 is a view showing the breeching and breeching-strap onlyconnected to the loop. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View on the line00 w of Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective View of the loop.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denotecorresponding parts in all the figures, A designates a brecching, B abreeching-strap, G a side strap, and D a lazy-strap, all of which are ofany common or preferred pattern and are arranged in a manner similar toordinary harness.

E is my improved loop or D, which is cast or formed in a single piece ofmetal, and consists of two side bars, e, which are preferably arrangedparallel with each other, a curved end bar, f, connecting the side barsat one end, a straight end, 5/, connecting the opposite ends of the sidebars, and an intermediate bar, It, arranged between theside bars and ata short distance from the straight end bar. This intermediate bar, it,forms an auxiliary or supplemental loop with the side and end bars,which is inclosed within the main loop or D, and is of course of smallersize, the

width of the space between the straight end and the intermediate barsbeing sufficient to permit the breeching A to be passed therethrough.

The breeehing A is passed through the aux iliary loop of the D anddoubled or bent over the straight end bar, 9, thereof, thebreeching-strap is connected to one of the side bars of the loop, thelazy-strap is connected to the other side bar, and the side strap isconnected to the curved end bar of the loop, all as will be understoodby reference to Fig. 1. It will be observed that the intermediate bar,h, of the loop efi'ectually prevents the breeching from movement orplay, and prevents the lazy and breeching straps from coming in contactwith the brecching, as the said lazy and breeching straps are connectedto the side bars of the loop on the opposite side of the intermediatebar, h, from the straight end bar, g.

The pull upon the brecching, lazy, and side straps when they are in usewill hold them in engagement with their respective bars of the loop, sothat they will not unduly wear and ehafe one another, and thus all ofthe straps connected with the loop are prevented from being unduly worn,which is very desirable.

In my prior patent, hereinbefore referred to, I provide a loop having anacute-angled bar intermediate a side and curved bar and a stud or lugprojecting inwardlyinto the space bounded by the bars, and arranged at apoint where the acute-angled and curved bars meet; but this loop doesnot permit of the attachment thereto of the side and lazy straps withoutcoming in contact with the breeching and unduly chafing and wearing thelatter.

I attach especial importance to theloop having an intermediate bararranged within the bars forming the loop and a short distance from oneof bars to thereby form an auxiliary or supplemental loop within themain loop or D, as therein lies the gist of my present invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a harnessloop, E, consisting of astraight bar, 9, the curved bar f, the sides 6, and the rectangularcross-bar h, adjacent to the bar 7, all

of which parts are integrally formed, the crossmy own I have heretoaffixed my signature in bar h and 'the bar 9 forming an auxiliary 100ppresence of two Witnesses. and being adapted to receive the breeching A,the end bar, 1, the side strap, and the side bars, 5 e e, and. the lazyand breeching straps, substan- Witnesses:

tially as described. W. W. CHAMBERLAIN, In testimony that I claim theforegoing as CHARLES W. ELLIs.

EDWARD BARNARD.

